Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-Screen Sci-FiRenaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-series that, eversince its debut in 2011, every other channel has been trying toduplicate (both in terms of ambitious world-building and globalaudience), then the best representations of the genre arguably leadthrough Netflix's Black Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014),Starz's Outlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's Jessica Jones(2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015), Syfy's The Expanseand The Magicians (2015), Netflix's Stranger Things, Luke Cage andTravelers (2016), HBO's Westworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX'sLegion (2017), CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2018)and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018), which wasreleased on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off — and your personalmileage varying on this group — it's an impressive collection ofseries, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Game ofThrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi". They're"fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexed garbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probably others.

If you read the actual article, the author says that for the sake of simplicity, he is lumping together hard-core space series, fantasy, time-travel, altered history and paranormal series into the "sci-fi" category. And he did mention Killjoys. But not The Orville.

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-Screen Sci-FiRenaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-series that, eversince its debut in 2011, every other channel has been trying toduplicate (both in terms of ambitious world-building and globalaudience), then the best representations of the genre arguably leadthrough Netflix's Black Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014),Starz's Outlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's Jessica Jones(2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015), Syfy's The Expanseand The Magicians (2015), Netflix's Stranger Things, Luke Cage andTravelers (2016), HBO's Westworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX'sLegion (2017), CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2018)and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018), which wasreleased on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off  and your personalmileage varying on this group  it's an impressive collection ofseries, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Game ofThrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi". They're"fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexed garbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probably others.

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-Screen Sci-FiRenaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-series that, eversince its debut in 2011, every other channel has been trying toduplicate (both in terms of ambitious world-building and globalaudience), then the best representations of the genre arguably leadthrough Netflix's Black Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014),Starz's Outlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's Jessica Jones(2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015), Syfy's The Expanseand The Magicians (2015), Netflix's Stranger Things, Luke Cage andTravelers (2016), HBO's Westworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX'sLegion (2017), CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2018)and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018), which wasreleased on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off  and your personalmileage varying on this group  it's an impressive collection ofseries, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Game ofThrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi". They're"fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexed garbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probably others.

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-ScreenSci-Fi Renaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-seriesthat, ever since its debut in 2011, every other channel hasbeen trying to duplicate (both in terms of ambitiousworld-building and global audience), then the bestrepresentations of the genre arguably lead through Netflix'sBlack Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014), Starz'sOutlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's JessicaJones (2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015),Syfy's The Expanse and The Magicians (2015), Netflix'sStranger Things, Luke Cage and Travelers (2016), HBO'sWestworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX's Legion (2017),CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams(2018) and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018),which was released on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off  and yourpersonal mileage varying on this group  it's an impressivecollection of series, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Gameof Thrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi".They're "fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexedgarbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probablyothers.

"Dark Matter" should be on the list, even though it wasn'trenewed.

"The Librarians" as well if they're going to include fantasyshows.

You'd have to include Happy!, too. If you dare.

--Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."-- David Bilek

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-ScreenSci-Fi Renaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-seriesthat, ever since its debut in 2011, every other channel hasbeen trying to duplicate (both in terms of ambitiousworld-building and global audience), then the bestrepresentations of the genre arguably lead through Netflix'sBlack Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014), Starz'sOutlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's JessicaJones (2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015),Syfy's The Expanse and The Magicians (2015), Netflix'sStranger Things, Luke Cage and Travelers (2016), HBO'sWestworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX's Legion (2017),CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams(2018) and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018),which was released on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off — and yourpersonal mileage varying on this group — it's an impressivecollection of series, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Gameof Thrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi".They're "fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexedgarbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probablyothers.

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman- altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-ScreenSci-Fi Renaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-seriesthat, ever since its debut in 2011, every other channel hasbeen trying to duplicate (both in terms of ambitiousworld-building and global audience), then the bestrepresentations of the genre arguably lead throughNetflix's Black Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014),Starz's Outlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix'sJessica Jones (2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle(2015), Syfy's The Expanse and The Magicians (2015),Netflix's Stranger Things, Luke Cage and Travelers (2016),HBO's Westworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX's Legion(2017), CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017),Starz's Counterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick'sElectric Dreams (2018) and, most recently, Netflix'sAltered Carbon (2018), which was released on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off â andyour personal mileage varying on this group â it's animpressive collection of series, with most getting betteras they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Gameof Thrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi".They're "fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped andover-sexed garbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probablyothers.

"Dark Matter" should be on the list, even though it wasn'trenewed.

"The Librarians" as well if they're going to include fantasyshows.

You'd have to include Happy!, too. If you dare.

Yup. Although that goes all the way to the Fantasy Freakcategory.

And, let's be honest, out the other side into a special categoryof its own. That show make H R Puffenstuff look like Mr. Rogers.

--Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."-- David Bilek

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-Screen Sci-FiRenaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-series that, eversince its debut in 2011, every other channel has been trying toduplicate (both in terms of ambitious world-building and globalaudience), then the best representations of the genre arguably leadthrough Netflix's Black Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014),Starz's Outlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's Jessica Jones(2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015), Syfy's The Expanseand The Magicians (2015), Netflix's Stranger Things, Luke Cage andTravelers (2016), HBO's Westworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX'sLegion (2017), CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2018)and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018), which wasreleased on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off  and your personalmileage varying on this group  it's an impressive collection ofseries, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Game ofThrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi". They're"fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexed garbage as well.The list missed 'Killjoys' and 'The Orville', and probably others.

"Dark Matter" should be on the list, even though it wasn't renewed.

I've only now gotten around to watching the recorded final season andjust seen the silly time-loop episode. If they've already reached the"run out of sensible ideas stage" and are resorting to this kind oflaziness, then it's probably better that it was cancelled. :-(

I've only now gotten around to watching the recorded final season andjust seen the silly time-loop episode. If they've already reached the"run out of sensible ideas stage" and are resorting to this kind oflaziness, then it's probably better that it was cancelled. :-(

Oh dear, and now a silly "go back in time to present day Earth"episode. Plus of course the holodeck-style silliness with Sarah. Theyreally did run out of sensible ideas for this show. :-\

I've only now gotten around to watching the recorded final season andjust seen the silly time-loop episode. If they've already reached the"run out of sensible ideas stage" and are resorting to this kind oflaziness, then it's probably better that it was cancelled. :-(

Oh dear, and now a silly "go back in time to present day Earth"episode. Plus of course the holodeck-style silliness with Sarah. Theyreally did run out of sensible ideas for this show. :-\

Or maybe they're just obsessed with ... ANOTHER show - an entirely different show.

Post by Davidhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/tim-goodman-altered-carbon-small-screen-sci-fi-renaissance-1084268Critic's Notebook: 'Altered Carbon' and the Small-Screen Sci-FiRenaissanceby Tim GoodmanIf you start with HBO's Game of Thrones as the ur-series that, eversince its debut in 2011, every other channel has been trying toduplicate (both in terms of ambitious world-building and globalaudience), then the best representations of the genre arguably leadthrough Netflix's Black Mirror (2011), The CW's The 100 (2014),Starz's Outlander (2014), AMC's Humans (2015), Netflix's Jessica Jones(2015), Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015), Syfy's The Expanseand The Magicians (2015), Netflix's Stranger Things, Luke Cage andTravelers (2016), HBO's Westworld (2016), USA's Colony (2016), FX'sLegion (2017), CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Starz'sCounterpart (2018), Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2018)and, most recently, Netflix's Altered Carbon (2018), which wasreleased on Feb. 2.Even with plenty of decent sci-fi series left off — and your personalmileage varying on this group — it's an impressive collection ofseries, with most getting better as they age.

I don't know about all of the others in that list, but 'Game ofThrones' and 'The Magicians' definitely aren't "sci-fi". They're"fantasy" ... and massively over-hyped and over-sexed garbage as well.

And too much Greco-Roman largess that was ultimately responsible is missing history wise. Stuff about anything similar to long-ago should at least have a story or two centered around the greek Corinth canal, at least!